Definitions for censor

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censor cen·sor

Spelling: [sen-ser]

IPA: /ˈsɛn sər/

Censor is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in censor (cenors).

Definitions for censor

noun

1. an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
2. any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
3. an adverse critic; faultfinder.
4. (in the ancient Roman republic) either of two officials who kept the register or census of the citizens, awarded public contracts, and supervised manners and morals.
5. (in early Freudian dream theory) the force that represses ideas, impulses, and feelings, and prevents them from entering consciousness in their original, undisguised forms.

verb (used with object)

1. to examine and act upon as a censor.
2. to delete (a word or passage of text) in one's capacity as a censor.

Origin of censor

1525-35; Latin cēnsor, equivalent to cēns(ēre) to give as one's opinion, recommend, assess + -tor -tor; -sor for *-stor by analogy with derivatives from dentals, as tō

Examples for censor

There would seem to be no limit to the influence of the censor.

As the editor of a Bombay magazine during the Emergency, Mehta was a target of the censor.

They was after it too,—they an' the Sundyes; but the censor did 'em.

Several bridges were also erected, and Cato the censor is said to have built a basilica.

Still, was it possible that Russian authorities could censor the Internet and make Meduza inaccessible for Russian readers?

The studio seemed to be satisfied with the results—although still opted to censor the death sequence in many foreign territories.

Jeff put out his hands for the sheets and the censor gave them up willingly.

The attempts to censor news in Mainland China about the protests backfired.

This would doubtless hardly be tolerated by the "censor" today.

Activists still have to reach the site on their own, escaping efforts to censor or monitor the internet in their home countries.